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Subject: Re: mp3 cutting and pasting

Re: mp3 cutting and pasting

From: Green, Tom <TGreen_at_CWF.org>
Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 11:28:44 -0400

I'm not sure about this, and I can't find it in the documentation, but
it looks to me as if Sony's "Sound Forge" (v7.0) does NOT re-encode the
mp3 files after editing - if you just select "save" and not "save as".

Anyone else have any more info on this?

- Tom Green


> blaou <blaou_at_gmx.net> writes:
>
> > For selecting your points in the cuesheet it might actually much
> > better to convert the file to wav first and find them there.
>
> Audacity converts to WAV. That's why I wrote "so I'd only use it to
> locate the cut points, not for cutting since that would degrade the
> audio quality."
>
> > Since Archos uses VBR encoding, often the times aren't accurate in
> > most mp3-software....
>
> mp3cut counts the length of each frame copied, precision guaranteed.
>
> -- Johan
> _______________________________________________

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